Question

I just read a blog which says “…methods that couldn’t be inlined previously because of other criteria are still not inlined. I checked the following, and neither of these methods was inlined…”

I cant reach the author and also I thought it might be interesting for SO users too. So I’d like to ask:

How can you check if a method was in fact inlined (or not)?

Answer 1

This blog entry about inlining states, among other interesting things:

Steven did this by throwing an exception and then programmatically
inspecting the stack trace associated with the exception. This
makes sense when you are trying to automate the analysis, but for
simple one-off cases, it is simpler and more powerful to simply look
at the native instructions. See this blog for details on how to using
Visual Studio.

ie: apparently for casual research just reading what’s actually getting executed is the way to go.